Dan Jones and Professor Michael Livingston walk through the battlefield of Shrewsbury, where the future king Henry V took an ...

The result is a performance that feels intimate and fiercely dangerous, anchoring a series that scratches the itch for gritty ...

When you picture medieval warfare, you might think of epic battles and famous monarchs. But what about the everyday soldiers ...

A permanent exhibition showing a state-of-the-art avatar of King Richard III has opened in Leicester. The display, which ...

From Britain's distant Viking past right up to the D-Day landings, here are 15 of the most common misconceptions that many ...

Demolishing its East Wing prompts me to propose renaming the White House. I suggest Chat-Pala-Cas (Chateau-Palace-Castle). Picture a moat, drawbridge, towers and turrets. Imagine a courtyard with a ...

The first recorded date of Christmas in England was in the year 597 when Augustine baptised 10,000 Saxons in Kent on ...

The Tudor-era ship had evaded search parties for centuries, and would probably have continued to do so were it not for the ...

In a world determined to sideline her, Empress Matilda tested the medieval world's understanding of who could rule.

A full-page Jesse Tree introduces the Psalms in the Tickhill Psalter, a 14th-century illuminated manuscript on view through ...

The Edinburgh jeweler Hamilton & Inches has created a 10-piece collection with the largest of the almost 200 freshwater ...

History is full of eyebrow-raising royal pairings, especially when it comes to age gaps. It's gotten a lot better since medieval times, but in the early '80s, Charles and Diana bridged a bigger divide ...